Meaning

1 senses

  1. A violent separation of parts.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. But where was he to go, in order to escape the relentless monster that sought to rend him?

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Origin

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut do

From Middle English renden, from Old English rendan (“to rend, tear, cut, lacerate, cut down”), from Proto-West Germanic *(h)randijan (“to tear”), of uncertain origin. Believed by some to be the causative of Proto-Germanic *hrindaną (“to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱret-, *kret- (“to hit, beat”), which would make it related to Old English hrindan (“to thrust, push”). Cognate with Scots rent (“to rend, tear”), Old Frisian renda (“to tear”).

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Forms

plural: rends
Singularrend
Pluralrends

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
renaissancerenalrenamerenderC1rendezvous

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